DotNetZip Zip-Slip Vulnerability

GHSA-7378-6268-4278 · CVE-2018-1002205

Published Oct 16, 2018 · Modified Mar 16, 2026

Description

DotNetZip.Semvered before 1.11.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in a Zip archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1002205
WEB https://github.com/haf/DotNetZip.Semverd/pull/121
WEB https://github.com/haf/DotNetZip.Semverd/commit/55d2c13c0cc64654e18fcdd0038fdb3d7458e366
WEB https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability
WEB https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
WEB https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-DOTNET-DOTNETZIP-60245

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